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Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event!

Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event!
From "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net>
References <kn070t$dl$1@speranza.aioe.org>
Date 2013-05-16 00:01 +0200
Message-ID <XnsA1C23366CC4eejj99@194.109.133.133> (permalink)

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Richard Maher wrote on 15 mei 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:

> A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt 
> a currently executing setTimeout() event! 

> If, like me, you hold this truth to be self-evident ..

More general, setTimeOut() does not fire while script is being executed,
as Javascript [in browsers and probably elsewhere] at present is both 
single threaded and uninteruptable.

Otherwise it just fires after the script-execution ends.

Even more so, setTimeout() only executes momentarily by calling a function 
or a code string.

So not so self-evident.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-15 22:44 +0800
  Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-05-15 08:58 -0700
    Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-16 19:14 +0800
      Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-05-16 07:44 -0700
  Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-05-16 00:01 +0200
    Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2013-05-16 19:02 +0800

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